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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW A8 TUE NlQlIT TUE DAY, THOU CAN>ST NOT TUEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY JAYNES, SHELOR, SMITH Sc 8TECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAY 1, 1907. NEV/ SERIES, NO. 473.-VOLUME LVJ1I.-L-NO. 18. Gar Fine White This is the first c that will db for brea able to secure. We ?< worR from out of tb ginia, through sqme c Every sacK ?tiara 90 CENTS P C. W. & J E. IT PAYS TO Bl ii Elli HEW We have just returned from tl up a very pretty line of READY-MA y (FULL WIDTH) and up-to-date \ Underskirts ; some Hnathorbloonse. and Corset CoverR. BK sure to see Ladies* Oxfords, It will pay you to see our line 1 yon want something neat and cheap. Our trade ia increasing and w< for cash. NO TRASH, but HONE; M. S. STRIBUI FAIR PLAY. Fair Play, April 29.-Our Sunday schools, OD yesterday, were poorly repre sented, quite a number attending the j singing at South Union. Allen Marett and family attended the reunion of the children of C. D. Giles,' of TownvUU. on yesterday. The many friends of 8. P. Strlbling will be sorry to hear that be has been confined to his bed for several days. Miss Janie Wiley, of Richland, and Miss Myra Anderson, of Roberts, have been on a protracted visit to the families of 8. P. and Mark D. Strlbling. Mesdames J. H. Heller and W. D. Dobbs went over to Lavenia, Ga., last Thursday shopping. The frleuds of Miss Matilda Marett will be glad to learn she is some better at this writing. Mrs. Maggie Land, of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Frank Barton, of Lavonia, are ? peoted this week on a visit to Mrs. Sallie j Land and family. Mrs, T. H. Harris was shopping in Se neca oity last Wednesday. ?f aJMr. and Mrs. John Tompkins, of near] ^ee.ukway, were v'.uting relatives here last week. Miss Helen Thompson, one of our most amiable young ladios, was the guest of Miss Hottle King one night last week. Mrs. Mark D. Strlbling and little son, Joe, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Anderson, of Roberts, last week. Miss Minnio Dooley is visiting in Carnesville, Ga. .'Let everybody subscribe for the Keo wee Courier. Mater. My Best Friend. Alexander Benton, who lives on Rural Route 1. Fort Edward, N. Y., says: "Dr. King's New Disoovery is my best earthly friend. It oured me of asthma six years ago. It has also performed a wonderful onre of incipient consumption for my HOII'H wife. The first bottle ended the| terrible cough, and this accomplished, the other symptoms left one by one, until | ahe was perfectly well. Dr. King's New Discovery's power over coughs and oolds is simply marvelous." No other remedy has ever equaled it. Fully guaranteed by all druggists. OOo. and $f. T.- lal bottle free._ Homlolde In Columbia. Columbia, April 27.-Ex Coroner Wil lie Green shot Mose Tucker, a negro haokman, through the head, instantly killing bim, in the Main street fruit nt' "e fefiPcto?, r. Greek, yesterday mor Wreon surrendered, saying ho told T?cker that if he advanced on him -vi! h the knife ho would kill him. ctr of nice Dry Corn? d, that we have been )t it after a lot of hard <e country tip in Vir* ?f our good friends, nteed. v ER BUSHEL. ? BAUKNICHT, UY FOR CASH. NUBBY I be Eastern Markets and have opened LDE SKIR.TS workmanship. Also, a niue line of A beautiful line of neat Shirt Waists them-and yon should also see our Men's Oxfords. o? Two-pieoe Suits befoiu you buy if a mean to inorease it more. We hell >T GOODS for the money. Westminster, S. 0. NG, Long Creak Locals Long Creek, April 80.- The fruit is all killed. Blemsnn Phillips is quite sick at tbis| writing. ' Mrs. Lena Karney is quite ill. Her many friends hope for her ? speedy re oo**ry. . Mrs. Nareissa Holmes ls on a protracted ' visit*to her son in Westminster. I Mrs. David Hamey and her little grand son^isllod the family of J.E. Phillips] j rocently.,: Ira and Rance Phillips visited Thomas Karney Saturday right and Sunday. Marcus Lee was happily married to j Miss Tl-lssie Williams cn April 14th. Miss Lela Lee, of Westminster, is visit ing in this section. We are always glad to see Miss Lela. Wedding bells will ring in this BOC lon soon. Cross Ky CL Sors Nipples. Any mother who has had experience with this distressing ailment will be pleased to know that a oure may be ef fected by applying Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is done nursing. Wipe it off with a softoloth before allow ing the babe to nurse. Many trained nurses use thiB salve with best results. For sale by Dr. J. W. Bel), Walhalla, and W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Corinth Locals. Corinth, April 29.-Our Sunday school in doing nioely. We have preaohihg | every third Sunday by our pastor, Rev. T. Land. After a three months' stay in Ander not), Miss Emma' Keaton has returned to her brother, W. W. Keaton, where she j will make her home. W. T. Dodd and wife visited W. R. Stephens and family last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Taylor and babe j visited the family of W. H. Stephens! reoently. Miss Emma Keaton visited Miss Carrie Stephens Friday evening. W. B. Stephens and sister, Miss Car Me, I attended the New Hopesohool entertain ment Saturday. W. W. Moss visited friends in this sec tion reoently. The farmers are about done planting) ootton. ' ** Rates for Columbia Confcdente Reunion. The Bine Ridge and Columbia and Greenville Railroads have named a rate of $8.26 from Walhalla to Columbia and I return on account of the annual Confede rate renn inn. The tiokets go on sale on Mny Otb and will be sold on May 7th and 8th. Final limit to all tiokets May 12th. SENECA. Seneca, April 80 - Th? show, by the Parland-Xewhall Compatir, at tbe opera house on last / m nd u v bight, was one of great exceljw?oe, snrl the audience, I while not so fud in numbers as we have seen onjone oceasions, was n distinct h . rcproHODtativu one. Suoh performances have tho merit, of elevating the oommu I nlty, and at the same time are highly en tertaining. We congratulate tbe man agement upon the splendid success. On Wednesday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. J. W. Stribling, Mrs. M. W. Cole man will be at home to ber frionds in honor of ber daughter, Mrs. 6. Y. Cole man, of Charleston, from 4 to 6 o'olook. At the samo hours Miss Mary Cherry will entertain the Gossipers, and for two hours' a stream of visitors, composing Seneca's four hundred, will call. The occasion will be full of interest to the friends of Mrs. Coleman here, who will meet her daughter, the interest, of course, bei og greatly enhanced by tho faot that the latter is the fair young: wifo of ono of Seneca's popular boys, George Y. Coleman. One of the most delightful meetings of the Quee n Woek Hub was held with Miss Eleanor Hichai dson last Thursday afternoon. The meeting being puroly a social one, business was laid aside for the time being, and the time given over to a thorough enjoyment of the lavish hospitality of the young hostess. Deli cious refreshments added greatly to tho pleasure a..d charm of the occasion. Work at the pack has been delayed on account of the rains, but will be begun as soon as the season is favorable. Mes dames J. E. Bittun and W. J. Lunney will have charge of the work for the first section. Misses Benson and McMnlle?, of Ii art well, are visiting Mrs. J. H. Adams. Mrs. M.'E. Sligh left on Saturday last for her mother's home cn Keoweo river, and tho late t news from her is most gratifying. Mrs. S. Y. Stribllni;, of Roswell, Ga., and Mrs. E. L. Aroher, of Spartscburg, spent several days in Seneca last week. Hon. and Mrs. J. C. Cary and son, Wbitner, of Lockhart, aro in Seueoa. .1. C. Stribling, of Pendleton, spent s day in Seneca the past week. Miss Eileen Jones, of Anderson, is vls< iting in Seueoa, in whose honor Mist Willie Cherry entertained a few frie?dt last evening L. M. Jordan, of Union, spent last Fri day here. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman, who have hac oharge of the Palmetto House for sonn months, left yesterday for Frsoklh Springs, Ga , -whore they go to tak< oharge of a hotel. Mrs. Emma Ander son is hostess at the Palmetto Housi now. . i It is unnecessary to comment on th handsome manner is which th* dea Seneca boys came to the front with th aforesaid best girl last Thursday nigh at the show. ? Boyce Hopkins is in North Carolins Where he has a position. ' At the late meeting of Knuth Carolin; Presbytery our townsman, Dr. B. A Hines, was nominated SB a commisslone to the General Assembly. This was distinct compliment, is at all tiroes sc but particularly at this time, ss i hu goo doctor was but recently a commisslone to the Assembly when it met in Atlant; Seneca's nice, fresh ice wagon is s jo and a delight to every house-keeper i her borders. Already the sound of th gong is familiar and the convenience < the same is known only to those wh have Buffered for the want of it. : We took occasion to visit J. A. Brook jewelry store a few days since, whioh fresh and beautiful, with new and batu some fixtures. Splendid beveled mlrroi adorn the Bhow oases and windows, an plate glass is used as shelving, giving brilliant and tasty eiTeot. Mr. Broc carries a handsome assortment, which 1 displays most attractively, the genari appearance of which makes one feel tht he is transported to sister Anderson < Greenville. - Joshua S. Arrington is making a d parture from his regular line of buslne and is building, for some of our hour keepers, neat and substantial ioe boxe Which he can prove will eat less Ice tht ..ny other ice box on the market. Th especial feature, however, d<.."s not i commend itself to our ioe foll?.,. Wanted, a good, fresh, new milch cot Write, or apply in person, to dor captai M. v. 8. Good Words tor Chamberlain's Cough Remit People everywhere take pleasure in U tifying to the good qualities of Cbambt Iain's Cough Remedy. Mrs. Edwa Phillips, of Barclay, Md., writes: "I wi to tell you that I can recommend Cbai hm iain's Cough Remedy. My little qi Cat inn inc, who is two years old, has be taking this remedy wheneversho hash a Cold since she was two months o' About a month ago I contracted a dret ful cold myself, but I took Chamberlaii Cough Remedy snd was soon as well ever." This remedy ls for sale by Dr. W. Bell, Walhalla, and W. J. Lunn Seneca.' ?n England ancTFrano of Alum Baking Powd hibited by law because jurious effects that folk The law in the E Columbia also prohib in food. You may live whei The only sure pro tee j Sayp ROYAL is made fron product Aids diges ^^HMSH^BHMHB \ S3 WESTMINSTER. ! Wcsi m mst or, April SO.-The following j young Inities compone the maduating1 class nf th? WcHtniiuMer Graded Schools, for lin 17 : M?HVPH Anni? Miller, Mary Reeder, Knby McGee, May Haley, Beu lah McDonald, Horten*? .bu.ea. PoHtello Thornton and Laura Smithson. MixR Mayette Young, of Toccoa, Ga., ie visiting relatives In Westminster this week. We got our wheelbarrow hack yester day, but we have no idea who borrowed it. Allen Pugh, having read the notice, directed us to a one-wheeled vehicle he bad discovered on the right-of-way of the railroad, bettrccn the Methodist church and the oil mill, at least three f on it IIB of a milo from where it wan taken. Evidently the midnight rambler lost his way or placed it there so the mysterious disappearance could not be easily cleared up.. The People's Store, the stores of L. A. Tannery, Mrs. Icie McGee, the central telephone office and toe barber shop ot Ab. Houston have been wired and are brilliantly lighted by electricity fur nished by J. 8. Carter's electric plant. At the home of her sor, J. H. Barnett, near Westminster, on Saturday, April 27, after months of sickness and suffering, Mrs. Rosa Barnett entered the eternal rest. She was 86 years old on the first day of last February. Mrs. Barnett was a native of Clear Springs, Maryland. The family moved to the South Caiolina coast and later moved to Ooonee county. Mrs. Barnett was left a widow on the 20th of May, 1882. The body of her hus band was buried at Richland cemetery. She was a member of Oak Grove Presby terian ohuroh, a faithful and zealous Christian, an affectionate mother and a kind neighbor. She reared to maturity and usefulness Beven socs and daughters and leaves a large family connection. The surviving children are P. A. and J. H. Barnett, Mrs. Frank Norris and Mrs. Chas. Parker, of Westminster; Mrs. J. V. Schaffer, of Wadmalaw Island, near Charleston, and George Barnett, of Fort Lawn, Chester county. One daughter, Mrs. J. R. Putty, died several years ago. Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian ohurch at 2.30 Sunday afternoon, after whiob the body was in terred in the cemetery at this place. ? To the bereaved family the condolence of many friends is extended. The young matrons were most delight fully entertained by Mrs. D. I. Mulkey at her home last Thursday a week ago, from four to six o'clock in the afternoon. Much interest and amusement was aroused by "writing telegrams." Each lady was given a blank telegraph form, which had one?word, "Charleston," written on it, and requested to write a telegram in a limited time, using the letters in "Charleston" to begin eaoh word in the message. Mrs. W. J. Carter woo tim prise, a beautiful hatpin. Deli cious cake and ice c am were served. Those present were Mesdames J. S. Car V J : ' '... 1. . . ti ? ? ' re as yet you have no pr Hon against Alum in your ROYAL? \ Absolutely pure Cream of 1 tion-adds tc the healthful! ter, O. T. Harmon, Hugh Bibb, W. J. ' Carter, C. B. ?mitb, I. 8. Pitta and Miss Ruth Walker, an nonary guest. I Mrs. J. O. Bearden and two ohildren, of Atlanta, are visiting her parents. Mr. H d Mrs. John L. MoLin, in Wext End. Miss Emma Moore visited relutives at Seneca last week. ' P. H. 8toueoypher made a business' tri)* to Atlanta last week. "Halehurst," the home of Dr. Burt Mitchell, was the scene ot a beautiful marris?** ceremony on Tuesday evening, | April 28 when Samuel E. Ervin and Miss j Missouri Hammett wore made man and !, wife. At 8.80 Mr. Ervin and Miss Ham mett entered the parlor, unattended, to the strains cf Mendelsshon's wedding march as rendered by Mrs. 3. A. Wat Vinn. The onremony WM parfnriaed by Rev. J. R. Moore, assisted by Rev. J. J. .Harrell. Fifty or more witnessed the nuptials. J. H. Dendy and three sisters, Misses Mariah, Sue and Emily Dendy, of Richland, Cadet Moore, of Clemson, Frank Shirley aud Furman Geer, of. An ders -n, were the out of-town guests. The happy couple received quite a lot of pretty ?uni useful bridal present?. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin will begin house-keeping soon in a cottage W. L. England is now finishing up for them. D. I Mulkey bas returned from a trip to Knoxvi.ie, Chattanooga and other points. J. H. Barnet? thinks he will gather from one-half to three-fourths of a orop of early cabbage. They will be some-1 thing like three weeks later on acoount of the freeze. He hopes to have some ready for the market by May 15. Born, nnto Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Macau* lay, on April 22, a daughter. The Hunt Marble and Granite Com pany have completed a nioo double-shaft monument to be placed at the grave of the deoeased wifo of William Bibb. Dr. H. E. Rosser and James C. Tan nin y have built two nico cottages on the south side of town. Mrs. W. E. Choswell and little daugh ter have returned from Florida. Mrs. R. Y. H. Lowery, of Seneca, ia visiting her daughter, Mrs. John R. Moore. Jesse Bryan died on April 2A. Ho was 04 years old last November. Mr. Bryan was a highly respected old gentleman. He lived to see his ohildreu to the fourth generation. His surviving children are Mrs- Humphries and J. L. Bryan. Inter ment took place at Changa on Sunday, funeral servioe* being conducted by Kev. 8. A. McDaniel. Fixture- for the post offloe have ar rived. Married, at the Patterson House, Cal vert, Alabama, on April 15, Miss Susie J. Ward, of Westminster, to Walter Thomas, of Starke, Florida, Rev. Foign, pastor of the Methodist church, of Fairford, Ala., officiating The bride is a daughter of D. C. Ward, of Ooonee, and ia a beautiful and accomplished young lady and he.* many friends add congratulations. George Barnett, of Fort Lawn, Crater otection against Alum Baking Powder is to AKINQ OWDER rartar,-a pure Grape less of food. county, was here Sunday at the burial of hiB mother, Mrs. Rosa Harnett. The many friends of Tbos. Bibb are glad to nee bim able to be but ?gain after au illness of several weeks. He Bpout a few days at Seneca last week. O. J. Mulkay bas a Jersey cow that gives forty pounds of milk per day. From this he gets two pounds of butter. If there is ss good or better cow in this county he wants to know how muoh the owner will take for her. Mr?. Lee Miller and babe returned yes terday from a visit to relatives at Carnes ville, Ga. lu the last paragraph of our last week's letter we mad* ...mistake rre wish to cor rect. In the list of ministers at Presby tery 36 years ago, as read by Rev. T. n. Ligon, there were 28 deceased and 0 liv ing, making 32 in, all. Rev. Hugh Mo Lees is the only minister now living in this Presbytery who attended the meet ing BS years ago. Westminster and Seneca base ball nines crossed bats here on April 23. Our boys won .the game by a score Of 12 to fr, Our venerable friend, Harrison Jen nings, is very sick and ls confined to his bed. We hope to hear of bis early resto ration to health. The following are the rates to the Jamestown Exposition from , Westmhi ster: Ten days limit, $10.06; fifteen days, $16.60; sixty days, $19.60; full season, $28.16. Tickets are now on sale. Hon. Wyatt Aiken waa shaking hands with his many friends here Saturday af ternoon. He was accompanied by Mrs. Aiken. They drove down to South Un ion on Sunday. Rev. /.' Carswell says his end of town is on a boom. Duff LoDg bas gone into the pigeon raising business and W. P. Barker, another one of his neighbors, is trying bis luck raising white rabbits. 0. J. Mu?key is placing bis new vault in his bank. Mr. Mnlkey says he bas al ready done a bigger and better business than he anticipated daring the whole year. Mrs. James Harbert and family have moved here and are occupying the new bouse built by Y. E. Pitts. Rev. J. C. Sbive will preach in the Presbyterian oburch Thursday evening at 8 o'clock on the snbjeot of Christian Education. Rev. Sbive is a former pastor of this church and will be warmly wel comed by his friends. It looks like the orosstie business has absorbed everything else around here. Our base ball nine goes to Seneca to day to play another matoh game thin ternoon. . Dr. J. H. Burgess, of Seneca, was here yesterday. Victor Johnson ia among friends hero for a few days. He bas been in Florida and South Georgia slnoe January. William HsrrUnn has returned from a trip to Atlanta, Roy Breazeale, flagman on the South ern railway. IH at homo for a few days, Thos. Cliuksoales, oonduotor on the Southern, is at home for a few days. D. B. Clark has returned from Frank lin, N. O. A. L. Gossett